Orthosia (plant)

Orthosia
Orthosia virgata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Asclepiadoideae
Tribe:	Asclepiadeae
Genus:	Orthosia Decne.

Orthosia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1844.^[1]

Species^[2]

1. Orthosia arenosa Decne. - Brazil
2. Orthosia bonplandiana (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Cuba
3. Orthosia calycina (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru
4. Orthosia cassythoides (Suess.) Morillo - Venezuela
5. Orthosia congesta (Vell.) Decne. - Brazil
6. Orthosia cynanchoides W.D. Stevens - Chiapas
7. Orthosia dusenii (Malme) Fontella - Brazil
8. Orthosia eichleri E.Fourn. - Brazil
9. Orthosia extra-axillaris W.D. Stevens - Costa Rica
10. Orthosia glaberrima (Woodson) W.D. Stevens - Panama, Costa Rica
11. Orthosia guilleminiana (Decne.) Liede & Meve - Brazil
12. Orthosia henriqueana (Silveira) Liede & Meve - Minas Geraes
13. Orthosia itatiaiensis Malme - Rio de Janeiro
14. Orthosia latipes (Decne.) Malme - Brazil
15. Orthosia loandensis Fontella & Valente - Paraná
16. Orthosia melantha (Decne.) Malme - Brazil
17. Orthosia multiflora E. Fourn. - Brazil
18. Orthosia parviflora (E. Fourn.) Liede & Meve - Rio de Janeiro
19. Orthosia pearcei (Rusby) Liede & Meve - Bolivia
20. Orthosia pubescens (Greenm.) Liede & Meve - Morelos
21. Orthosia ramosa W.D. Stevens - Honduras
22. Orthosia rubens (L.O. Williams) W.D. Stevens - Guatemala
23. Orthosia scoparia (Nutt.) Liede & Meve - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina^[3]
24. Orthosia selloana (E. Fourn.) Liede & Meve - Brazil
25. Orthosia smaragdina W.D. Stevens - Guatemala
26. Orthosia stipitata W.D. Stevens - Chiapas
27. Orthosia tarmensis Schltr. - Peru
28. Orthosia thymifolia Schltr. - Peru
29. Orthosia umbrosa Decne. - Rio de Janeiro
30. Orthosia urceolata E.Fourn. - Brazil
31. Orthosia virgata (Poir.) E. Fourn. - Argentina
32. Orthosia woodii Meve & Liede - Bolivia

formerly included

1. O. acuminata, syn of Matelea acuminata
2. O. bahiensis, syn of Ditassa capillaris
3. O. cardozoi, syn of Cynanchum cardozoi
4. O. ecuadorensis, syn of Cynanchum densiflorum
5. O. ellemannii, syn of Cynanchum ellemannii
6. O. grandis, syn of Jobinia grandis
7. O. kunthii, syn of Cynanchum kunthii
8. O. meridensis, syn of Cynanchum meridense
9. O. misera, syn of Metastelma miserum
10. O. oblongata, syn of Matelea oblongata
11. O. serpyllifolia, syn of Vincetoxicum serpyllifolium
12. O. stannardii, syn of Cynanchum stannardii
13. O. stenophylla, syn of Cynanchum trianae
14. O. suberosa, syn of Metastelma parviflorum
15. O. ventensis, syn of Cynanchum ventensis

References

1. Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de. 1844. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 8: 526–527
2. The Plant List
3. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Cynanchum scoparium